Amy Blank Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Blank Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Blank |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5030-3451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tiny homes—big movement
Background: Ensuring an adequate supply of affordable housing is one of the most pressing public health challenges facing the United States. This challenge is particularly pressing for people with severe mental illness living on incomes 25% below the federal poverty level, placing them at increased risk of housing insecurity. Description: This paper presents a community case study of the Tiny Homes Village (THV) demonstration project. In this pro…
Forging new paths in the development of community mental health interventions for people with mental illness at risk of criminal legal system contact
BACKGROUND: Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have disproportionately high rates of criminal legal system involvement. For many, this becomes a repeated cycle of arrest and incarceration. Treatments that address symptoms of mental illness are a critical component of the continuum of services for people with SMI in the legal system; yet on their own, psychiatric treatments have not been successful at reducing criminal legal system invo…
Examining facilitator experiences delivering an intervention to system-involved women with mental illnesses
Gender differences have been found in the experiences and needs of individuals involved in the criminal legal system, underscoring the importance of interventions tailored to address the needs of system-involved women. Despite this recognition, there remains a gap in understanding how to effectively implement interventions for women with mental illnesses—a population that is increasingly prevalent within correctional facilities. This qualitative …
Examining the Influence of Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Connectedness on the Mental Health Symptoms of Black Adolescent Serious Offenders
Exploring Treatment Completion and Participant Feedback in an Adapted Intervention among Incarcerated Men with Mental Illness
Treatment completion in interventions within correctional settings is challenging both generally and for people with mental illness (MI). Few studies have explored treatment completion alongside feedback from this population. We examined the rates of treatment completion alongside participant feedback to explore how participant feedback can improve treatment completion. Mixed-methods were used to examine treatment completion rates and clinical ch…
The Impact of Community‐Level Social and Economic Factors on Healthcare Access Among Individuals With Mental Illness
Aims: We examined how community‐level socioeconomic deprivation and residential stability impact healthcare access among a sample of individuals with mental illness. Methods: We linked five years of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS; 2013–2017) with community‐level data, drawing a sample of adults with mental illness in the United Sates ( N = 5444). Descriptive statistics and bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models are pre…
Inclusive Supervision
This qualitative inquiry examined the supervisory practices of 12 student-affairs professionals who were identified by their supervisees as modeling the tenets of inclusive supervision. Through a deductive research design and pattern-matching analysis, this study sought to test the consistency of the inclusive supervision model through the practices of supervisors. Analysis suggests a strong congruence between supervisor practices and the tenets …
Deconstructing Professionalism
Using a constructivist paradigm, this qualitative study investigated the impact of social identities on how professionalism is learned, practiced, and challenged by new professionals in student affairs. Collaborators in this study included 25 recent graduates of a student affairs professional preparation program. Findings suggest race, gender, age, and sexual orientation were salient factors in the construction and deconstruction of traditional n…
Examining the Influence of the Neighborhood Environment on Stress Among Black American Adolescents
The prevalence of mental health challenges continues to worsen among adolescents, with Black American adolescents experiencing rates of suicide attempts that are increasing faster than any other racial and ethnic groups. Research has found that the neighborhood environment impacts mental health through the type and level of stress that people experience generally. More is yet to be known, however, about the biological and psychological impacts of…
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY
New data and technologies, in particular machine learning, may make it possible to forecast neighbourhood change. Doing so may help, for example, to prevent the negative impacts of gentrification on marginalised communities. However, predictive models of neighbourhood change face four challenges: accuracy (are they right?), granularity (are they right at spatial or temporal scales that actually matter for a policy response?), bias (are they equit…
Holistic Admissions and Racial/Ethnic Diversity
What Gets Measured in Reentry Research? A Scoping Review on Community Reentry From Jail and Prison for Persons With Mental Illnesses
Research on reentry for individuals with mental illnesses leaving jails and prisons lacks outcome specificity and standardization needed to advance knowledge about the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions. This scoping review aims to provide clarity about reentry outcomes by: (a) ascertaining what outcomes are a focus in reentry research, (b) explicating how outcomes are defined, and (c) identifying commonalities or gaps in outcomes report…
The Promise of Research to Advance Smart Decarceration
This paper describes the concept of “Smart Decarceration” and introduces the special issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior entitled “Research to Advance Smart Decarceration Policies, Programs, and Interventions.” The concept of Smart Decarceration originated nearly a decade ago as the United States reached a tipping point in mass incarceration, and it focuses on three interrelated outcomes: substantially reducing the use of incarceration and oth…
Patterns in Medicaid Coverage and Service Utilization Among People with Serious Mental Illnesses
Accountability in Intervention Research
Tiny Homes Are Huge for People Living With Serious Mental Illness
Purpose: A formative evaluation examined the acceptability and feasibility of tiny homes for people living with serious mental illness (SMI). Methods: The evaluation included four focus groups with people with SMI and service providers ( n = 28) and eight overnight stays with people with SMI. Results: The analysis identified six recommendations for tailoring the design of the tiny homes and the community where the homes will be located to meet th…
Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to examine implementation determinants of specialty mental health probation
BACKGROUND: Specialty mental health probation (SMHP) is designed to improve outcomes for the large number of people with serious mental illnesses who are on probation and/or parole. The evidence for specialty mental health probation is promising; however, little is known about the implementation challenges and facilitators associated with SMHP. To address this gap, we used the consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) to analyze 2…
Conceptualizing restorative justice for people with mental illnesses leaving prison or jail
Individuals with psychiatric disabilities who are involved in the criminal justice system face a number of challenges to community integration upon release. There is a critical need to develop and evaluate interventions for these individuals that connect them to the community by enhancing naturalistic social connections and helping them to participate meaningfully in valued roles. The purposes of this article are to describe, provide a theoretica…
Statewide mental health training for probation officers
BACKGROUND: The large and growing number of probationers with mental illnesses pose significant challenges to the probationer officers who supervise them. Stigma towards mental illnesses among probation officers is largely unstudied and the effectiveness of training initiatives designed to educate probation officers about mental illness is unknown. To address these gaps in the literature, we report findings from a statewide mental health training…
Translating Interventions that Target Criminogenic Risk Factors for use in Community Based Mental Health Settings
Collaborative Adaptations in Social Work Intervention Research in Real-World Settings
Social work research has identified the crucial role that service practitioners play in the implementation of evidence-based practices. This has led some researchers to suggest that intervention research needs to incorporate collaborative adaptation strategies in the design and implementation of studies focused on adapting evidence-based practices to real-world practice settings. This article describes a collaborative approach to service adaptati…
Teaching Direct Practice Skills Using Web-Based Simulations
Social work programs increasingly are engaged in deploying distance education models, yet questions remain about how to teach direct practice skills within this context. As field agency changes have limited practice opportunities for social work students, methods for helping interns develop direct practice skills in diverse field practicum settings also are needed. This paper describes a direct practice course initiative in which a virtual simula…
How People With Serious Mental Illness Seek Help After Leaving Jail
In this study, I examined how people with serious mental illness defined and prioritized their service needs when released from jail and how these service priorities shaped the sequencing of help-seeking activities after their release. Data included ethnographic observations and interviews with the staff and clients of a mental health reentry program and responses to an open-ended questionnaire that was given to the program's clients ( N = 115). …
It Takes ID to Get ID
Application procedures for each major form of government identification require at least one other major form of identification to authenticate the applicant’s identity. Although this policy loop has implications for a number of vulnerable populations, it creates particularly intractable problems for people leaving incarceration with serious mental illness. These individuals depend upon timely access to public assistance programs for treatment of…
Children's responses to interadult anger as a function of information about resolution
In everyday family environments, conflict resolution in the presence of children is often not feasible. Can children still benefit from other sources of information about resolution? Analogue studies presented 5- to 6-year-old and 9- to 10-year-old children with videotaped scenarios of interadult conflicts ending in various ways. Study 1 demonstrated that negative effects of adults' disputes on children are reduced even by «resolution behind clos…
Children's responses to interadult anger as a function of information about resolution
In everyday family environments, conflict resolution in the presence of children is often not feasible. Can children still benefit from other sources of information about resolution? Analogue studies presented 5- to 6-year-old and 9- to 10-year-old children with videotaped scenarios of interadult conflicts ending in various ways. Study 1 demonstrated that negative effects of adults' disputes on children are reduced even by «resolution behind clos…
Teaching Direct Practice Skills Using Web-Based Simulations
Social work programs increasingly are engaged in deploying distance education models, yet questions remain about how to teach direct practice skills within this context. As field agency changes have limited practice opportunities for social work students, methods for helping interns develop direct practice skills in diverse field practicum settings also are needed. This paper describes a direct practice course initiative in which a virtual simula…
How People With Serious Mental Illness Seek Help After Leaving Jail
In this study, I examined how people with serious mental illness defined and prioritized their service needs when released from jail and how these service priorities shaped the sequencing of help-seeking activities after their release. Data included ethnographic observations and interviews with the staff and clients of a mental health reentry program and responses to an open-ended questionnaire that was given to the program's clients ( N = 115). …
It Takes ID to Get ID
Application procedures for each major form of government identification require at least one other major form of identification to authenticate the applicant’s identity. Although this policy loop has implications for a number of vulnerable populations, it creates particularly intractable problems for people leaving incarceration with serious mental illness. These individuals depend upon timely access to public assistance programs for treatment of…
Tiny Homes Are Huge for People Living With Serious Mental Illness
Purpose: A formative evaluation examined the acceptability and feasibility of tiny homes for people living with serious mental illness (SMI). Methods: The evaluation included four focus groups with people with SMI and service providers ( n = 28) and eight overnight stays with people with SMI. Results: The analysis identified six recommendations for tailoring the design of the tiny homes and the community where the homes will be located to meet th…
Collaborative Adaptations in Social Work Intervention Research in Real-World Settings
Social work research has identified the crucial role that service practitioners play in the implementation of evidence-based practices. This has led some researchers to suggest that intervention research needs to incorporate collaborative adaptation strategies in the design and implementation of studies focused on adapting evidence-based practices to real-world practice settings. This article describes a collaborative approach to service adaptati…
Children's responses to interadult anger as a function of information about resolution
In everyday family environments, conflict resolution in the presence of children is often not feasible. Can children still benefit from other sources of information about resolution? Analogue studies presented 5- to 6-year-old and 9- to 10-year-old children with videotaped scenarios of interadult conflicts ending in various ways. Study 1 demonstrated that negative effects of adults' disputes on children are reduced even by «resolution behind clos…
It Takes ID to Get ID
Application procedures for each major form of government identification require at least one other major form of identification to authenticate the applicant’s identity. Although this policy loop has implications for a number of vulnerable populations, it creates particularly intractable problems for people leaving incarceration with serious mental illness. These individuals depend upon timely access to public assistance programs for treatment of…
Teaching Direct Practice Skills Using Web-Based Simulations
Social work programs increasingly are engaged in deploying distance education models, yet questions remain about how to teach direct practice skills within this context. As field agency changes have limited practice opportunities for social work students, methods for helping interns develop direct practice skills in diverse field practicum settings also are needed. This paper describes a direct practice course initiative in which a virtual simula…
How People With Serious Mental Illness Seek Help After Leaving Jail
In this study, I examined how people with serious mental illness defined and prioritized their service needs when released from jail and how these service priorities shaped the sequencing of help-seeking activities after their release. Data included ethnographic observations and interviews with the staff and clients of a mental health reentry program and responses to an open-ended questionnaire that was given to the program's clients ( N = 115). …
Collaborative Adaptations in Social Work Intervention Research in Real-World Settings
Social work research has identified the crucial role that service practitioners play in the implementation of evidence-based practices. This has led some researchers to suggest that intervention research needs to incorporate collaborative adaptation strategies in the design and implementation of studies focused on adapting evidence-based practices to real-world practice settings. This article describes a collaborative approach to service adaptati…
Statewide mental health training for probation officers
BACKGROUND: The large and growing number of probationers with mental illnesses pose significant challenges to the probationer officers who supervise them. Stigma towards mental illnesses among probation officers is largely unstudied and the effectiveness of training initiatives designed to educate probation officers about mental illness is unknown. To address these gaps in the literature, we report findings from a statewide mental health training…
Translating Interventions that Target Criminogenic Risk Factors for use in Community Based Mental Health Settings
Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to examine implementation determinants of specialty mental health probation
BACKGROUND: Specialty mental health probation (SMHP) is designed to improve outcomes for the large number of people with serious mental illnesses who are on probation and/or parole. The evidence for specialty mental health probation is promising; however, little is known about the implementation challenges and facilitators associated with SMHP. To address this gap, we used the consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) to analyze 2…
Conceptualizing restorative justice for people with mental illnesses leaving prison or jail
Individuals with psychiatric disabilities who are involved in the criminal justice system face a number of challenges to community integration upon release. There is a critical need to develop and evaluate interventions for these individuals that connect them to the community by enhancing naturalistic social connections and helping them to participate meaningfully in valued roles. The purposes of this article are to describe, provide a theoretica…
Tiny Homes Are Huge for People Living With Serious Mental Illness
Purpose: A formative evaluation examined the acceptability and feasibility of tiny homes for people living with serious mental illness (SMI). Methods: The evaluation included four focus groups with people with SMI and service providers ( n = 28) and eight overnight stays with people with SMI. Results: The analysis identified six recommendations for tailoring the design of the tiny homes and the community where the homes will be located to meet th…
What Gets Measured in Reentry Research? A Scoping Review on Community Reentry From Jail and Prison for Persons With Mental Illnesses
Research on reentry for individuals with mental illnesses leaving jails and prisons lacks outcome specificity and standardization needed to advance knowledge about the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions. This scoping review aims to provide clarity about reentry outcomes by: (a) ascertaining what outcomes are a focus in reentry research, (b) explicating how outcomes are defined, and (c) identifying commonalities or gaps in outcomes report…
The Promise of Research to Advance Smart Decarceration
This paper describes the concept of “Smart Decarceration” and introduces the special issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior entitled “Research to Advance Smart Decarceration Policies, Programs, and Interventions.” The concept of Smart Decarceration originated nearly a decade ago as the United States reached a tipping point in mass incarceration, and it focuses on three interrelated outcomes: substantially reducing the use of incarceration and oth…
Patterns in Medicaid Coverage and Service Utilization Among People with Serious Mental Illnesses
Accountability in Intervention Research
Holistic Admissions and Racial/Ethnic Diversity
Inclusive Supervision
This qualitative inquiry examined the supervisory practices of 12 student-affairs professionals who were identified by their supervisees as modeling the tenets of inclusive supervision. Through a deductive research design and pattern-matching analysis, this study sought to test the consistency of the inclusive supervision model through the practices of supervisors. Analysis suggests a strong congruence between supervisor practices and the tenets …
Deconstructing Professionalism
Using a constructivist paradigm, this qualitative study investigated the impact of social identities on how professionalism is learned, practiced, and challenged by new professionals in student affairs. Collaborators in this study included 25 recent graduates of a student affairs professional preparation program. Findings suggest race, gender, age, and sexual orientation were salient factors in the construction and deconstruction of traditional n…
Examining the Influence of the Neighborhood Environment on Stress Among Black American Adolescents
The prevalence of mental health challenges continues to worsen among adolescents, with Black American adolescents experiencing rates of suicide attempts that are increasing faster than any other racial and ethnic groups. Research has found that the neighborhood environment impacts mental health through the type and level of stress that people experience generally. More is yet to be known, however, about the biological and psychological impacts of…
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY
New data and technologies, in particular machine learning, may make it possible to forecast neighbourhood change. Doing so may help, for example, to prevent the negative impacts of gentrification on marginalised communities. However, predictive models of neighbourhood change face four challenges: accuracy (are they right?), granularity (are they right at spatial or temporal scales that actually matter for a policy response?), bias (are they equit…
Tiny homes—big movement
Background: Ensuring an adequate supply of affordable housing is one of the most pressing public health challenges facing the United States. This challenge is particularly pressing for people with severe mental illness living on incomes 25% below the federal poverty level, placing them at increased risk of housing insecurity. Description: This paper presents a community case study of the Tiny Homes Village (THV) demonstration project. In this pro…
Forging new paths in the development of community mental health interventions for people with mental illness at risk of criminal legal system contact
BACKGROUND: Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have disproportionately high rates of criminal legal system involvement. For many, this becomes a repeated cycle of arrest and incarceration. Treatments that address symptoms of mental illness are a critical component of the continuum of services for people with SMI in the legal system; yet on their own, psychiatric treatments have not been successful at reducing criminal legal system invo…
Examining facilitator experiences delivering an intervention to system-involved women with mental illnesses
Gender differences have been found in the experiences and needs of individuals involved in the criminal legal system, underscoring the importance of interventions tailored to address the needs of system-involved women. Despite this recognition, there remains a gap in understanding how to effectively implement interventions for women with mental illnesses—a population that is increasingly prevalent within correctional facilities. This qualitative …
Examining the Influence of Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Connectedness on the Mental Health Symptoms of Black Adolescent Serious Offenders
Exploring Treatment Completion and Participant Feedback in an Adapted Intervention among Incarcerated Men with Mental Illness
Treatment completion in interventions within correctional settings is challenging both generally and for people with mental illness (MI). Few studies have explored treatment completion alongside feedback from this population. We examined the rates of treatment completion alongside participant feedback to explore how participant feedback can improve treatment completion. Mixed-methods were used to examine treatment completion rates and clinical ch…
The Impact of Community‐Level Social and Economic Factors on Healthcare Access Among Individuals With Mental Illness
Aims: We examined how community‐level socioeconomic deprivation and residential stability impact healthcare access among a sample of individuals with mental illness. Methods: We linked five years of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS; 2013–2017) with community‐level data, drawing a sample of adults with mental illness in the United Sates ( N = 5444). Descriptive statistics and bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models are pre…
Psychology (20 works) · Mental health (18 works) · Psychiatry (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Psychological intervention (12 works) · Mental illness (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works)